This is the type of power the @EUCommission wants to give to its #bigtech bros: whitelisting even WHO is allowed access to basic communication networks.
https://www.techspot.com/news/111679-pagers-paper-maps-making-comeback-moscow-no-not.html
Social credit score not enough? Didn't praise the dear leader sufficiently? No phone calls or internet for you.
Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Edit: this article is based on LLM generated material, and I haven't spent the time to check its sources
In the wake of yesterday's small victory in the fight against #chatcontrol (for those who need to catch up, see e.g. https://eupolicy.social/@edri/116210886976774598) I would like to advertise the excellent site https://howtheyvote.eu, which makes it really easy to see who voted what, for *all* the votes in the EU parliament.
Here's the page for yesterday's vote: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/186972.
Have a look! That's a great way to know which of your representatives lean against privacy on the internet.
Attached: 1 image 1/ 🪅 Great news! Today, the #EuropeanParliament voted to improve the Commission’s proposal for another extension of the ePrivacy derogation (often called "Chat Control1.0"). A large majority agreed that: ✅ Mass surveillance of private communications by Big Tech companies is not allowed, and any intrusion into people’s right to confidential communications needs to be based on reasonable suspicion; ✅ End-to-end encrypted communications cannot be weakened or undermined.
@EUCommission if some weirdo walked up to a lone child in public, forcefully pushing random products on them that exploit their neural reward pathways in order to get money from them, it would be absolutely unacceptable right? Then why is it legal for multi-billion dollar organisations to have teams of people dedicated to doing this online?
If you really want to protect them, ban advertisements. But you won't, #Bigtech runs on that revenue. We know you don't actually care about the children.
The @EUCommission wants to protect the children by forcing all random internet platforms to take pictures of and record personal information of all children. What could possibly go wrong?
They are meeting with their sex crime-adjacent buddies, Palantir's Peter Thiel who is mentioned multiple times in the #epstein files and Thorn's Ashton Kutcher - yes, the "Dude where's my car" and "Punk'd" Hollywood actor, who chose to be a character witness for a convicted serial rapist.
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